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What do you call the ! symbol?
Meow! With an !.
Exclamation point
 
 60.5%, 23 votes
Exclamation mark
 
 21.1%, 8 votes
Bang
 
 7.9%, 3 votes
Upside-down i   0.0%, 0 votes
Other
 
 10.5%, 4 votes
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Posted on 09-03-10 05:50:02 AM Link | Quote
How do you refer to the ! symbol?

I call it the exclamation point. The question mark is already a mark, so the exclamation point gets to be different by being a point I don't know, I think my mom said "exclamation mark" years ago, but I learned "exclamation point" in school. Then, my mom picked up on that too.

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Posted on 09-03-10 06:11:26 AM Link | Quote
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I call it 'ih' for some bizarre reason. Like !logical = "Ih-logical."

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Posted on 09-03-10 06:19:23 AM Link | Quote
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Exclamation point, unless I'm reading "#!", then it's bang.

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Posted on 09-03-10 08:04:14 AM (last edited by Sanky at 09-03-10 05:06 AM) Link | Quote
Vykřičník.
A direct translation would be something like "Enshouter".

But you got me with the English. I think I'd use exclamation mark.

EDIT: "Meow! With an !." I read that mentally as "Meow! With an uh."

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Posted on 09-03-10 08:05:59 AM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Sanky
A direct translation would be something like "Enshouter".

This is good.

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Posted on 09-03-10 11:19:30 AM Link | Quote
When placed in a sentence at point, it functions normally.
When added to a sentence as its own function like ! so, I may or may not think of it as "Exclamation Mark". Although that may be a bad example, I am now seeing "like importantly so"
When used on its own, as in "!" is a sentence, my mind generates some form of sound effect that (like a lot of me) depends on my mood at the time. Sometimes it's like the MGS Spotted sound, but not this time. (This time, it's kind of...like an "Ungh!" played on an old sound chip, perhaps NES)

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Posted on 09-03-10 12:26:18 PM Link | Quote
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Posted on 09-03-10 01:26:28 PM (last edited by Orlandu at 09-03-10 10:26 AM) Link | Quote


I call it an exclamation mark, though.

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Posted on 09-03-10 02:14:12 PM Link | Quote
I've always called it Exclamation Point, to help distinguish it from the Question Mark. I've never heard of it as being referred to as "bang" before, though.

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Posted on 09-03-10 04:35:38 PM Link | Quote
I think "bang" is mostly in computer programming for a shorter name for the symbol.

There's also "explanation point", for people who can't remember the initial word correctly.

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Posted on 09-03-10 05:52:53 PM Link | Quote
I have always called it an exclamation mark, just like how I've always called "?" a question mark.

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Posted on 09-03-10 06:28:47 PM Link | Quote
"Exclamation mark"... not "explanation mark" or anything like that xD

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Posted on 09-04-10 01:09:28 AM Link | Quote
I call it the exclamation point, because it makes a point for me, whereas no other punctuation mark makes such an impact.

With an exclamation point, people start taking what I say seriously!

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Posted on 09-04-10 10:32:49 AM Link | Quote




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Posted on 09-04-10 02:08:14 PM (last edited by Sanky at 09-04-10 11:10 AM) Link | Quote
Originally posted by NSNick
Half of an interrobang.

What do you mean‽
(I would actually gladly be using it, but it's ugly on most fonts )

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Posted on 09-04-10 03:15:59 PM Link | Quote
Well, I read this thread title in my head as "Poll: Bang!"

In the context of grammar, I call it an exclamation point. In most other cases, I default to Bang.

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Posted on 09-05-10 02:15:08 AM Link | Quote
 
Generally an "exclamation point" or "exclamation mark", I do refer to it as "bang" in terms of programming.

Same thing with #. It's usually "number" for numbers, "hash" and very rarely "crunch" for programming.

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Posted on 09-05-10 03:02:20 AM Link | Quote
Chi.
Mentally I don't read it by a name. I just kind of read it like... an unpronounciable symbol. Like a (heavily in this case) emphasized blank.
Kind of like ♥♪?!. That name doesn't match his personality much.

The symbol though I call it exclamation sign or mark. Or just exclamation to abbreviate.

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Posted on 09-05-10 08:54:12 AM Link | Quote
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Like Reimu, if I'm reading a sentence in my head or aloud, I won't read the exclamation point.

Also, "exclamation" for a shorter way of saying it, if need be.

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